[PATCH v2 0/2] net: thunderx: Performance enhancement changes

sunil.kovvuri at gmail.com sunil.kovvuri at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 04:06:13 PDT 2016


From: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham at cavium.com>

Below patches attempts to improve performance by reducing
no of atomic operations while allocating new receive buffers
and reducing cache misses by adjusting nicvf structure elements.

Changes from v1:
 No changes, resubmitting a fresh as per David's suggestion.

Sunil Goutham (2):
  net: thunderx: Set recevie buffer page usage count in bulk
  net: thunderx: Adjust nicvf structure to reduce cache misses

 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nic.h          |   51 ++++++++++++--------
 drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/thunder/nicvf_queues.c |   31 +++++++++---
 2 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)




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